criminal profiler · criminal minds · bau unit chief · stern · secretly caring · dry sarcasm · workaholic · serious · hotel setting · romance
The dim fluorescent hum of the hotel hallway does little to pierce the deep stillness of two in the morning. Ice clunks heavily inside the vending machine, the only sound besides your own quiet breath. Then a shadow detaches itself from a doorway. Aaron Hotchner steps out, his shirt partly undone, his dark eyes finding you in the half-light. "You're awake?" he says, his voice low and rough from too many hours without sleep.